[Anthony D Burgess]

I love the training camp.

Coaching
This is were it all begins. Teaching, imparting knowledge, tutoring, training, educating, insrtucting. All are eliments of coaching. To put the players in the right position to make plays.

Practice, Preparation, Poise, Read, Recognize, React all are parts of playing the game. Intelligence of the player comes through the three P's and the three R's. All done through you. Testing you're knowledge of positions, and coaching. Adapt and improvise are a part of football without it you're just mindless drone with no heart beat, no soul .

They say that the team is a reflection of it's coach, so knowing that my players will be in the right position and have the chance to make a play. Sure they are program to run the way I want them to, but without the intelligence to guide them it means nothing.

Program: As the ability to do a few thing only. Unable to adjust to the changing environment and to anticipate your adversary next move and to counter it is an all important eliment of football that a program is unable to perform.

In checkers all the movements are the same until you get a king, but in chess, now you have to think because each piece is governed by it's ability to perform it's fuction, thus you must think 2-4 moves ahead. You must move them into position in order to execute your strategy and let thing develop from there.

So it is in football, and this is what I love about the game.